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Poetry

Penina Wilson Leia

ISBN: PB: 9781632430854, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, October 2020
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Answering a call to go feral, these poems are part invocation and part prayer, re-imagining the form of the confessional poem by exploring the nature of confession from a feminist and anti-colonial perspective. In This Red Metropolis What Remains, Le...

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Poetry

2nd Chance

Becker Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9781936970674, University of Chicago Press, New Issues Poetry and Prose, October 2020
72 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The poems in 2nd Chance are written in the voice of a doctor; the speaker often imagines he is talking to students, residents, patients, families – anyone who is ill or has witnessed illness and suffering. The poet, Daniel M. Becker, has been a physi...

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General

Advancing Urban Rights Equality and Diversity in the City

Garcia-Chueca Eva, Vidal Lorenzo

ISBN: PB: 9781551647678, ISBN: HB: 9781551647692, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, October 2020
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

How can the set of rights that underpin the notion of the "right to the city" be advanced? In seeking answers to this question over several decades, social mobilizations have been assembled and new political and legal frameworks promoted. New interpr...

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Biography & Memoires

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Unspeakable A Life beyond Sexual Morality

Hope Cleves Rachel

ISBN: HB: 9780226733531, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones

The sexual exploitation of children by adults has a long, fraught history. Yet how cultures have reacted to it is shaped by a range of forces, beliefs, and norms, like any other social phenomenon. Changes in how Anglo-American culture has understood...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Vanished Giants The Lost World of the Ice Age

Stuart Anthony J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226432847, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 69 halftones

Long after the extinction of dinosaurs, when humans were still in the stone age, woolly rhinos, mammoths, mastodons, sabertooth cats, giant ground sloths, and many other spectacular large animals that are no longer with us roamed the Earth. These ani...

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Business & Economics

Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World

Nansen McCloskey Deirdre

ISBN: HB: 9780226739663, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The economist and historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has been best known recently for her Bourgeois Era trilogy, a vigorous defense, unrivaled in scope, of commercially tested betterment. Its massive volumes, The Bourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Dignity...

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Literary Criticism

Weak Planet Literature and Assisted Survival

Dimock Wai Chee

ISBN: PB: 9780226477107, ISBN: HB: 9780226477077, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

Vulnerability. We see it everywhere. In once permanent institutions. In runaway pandemics. In democracy itself. And most frighteningly, in ecosystems with no sustainable future. Against these large-scale hazards of climate change, what can literature...

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Europe

Philosophy

Weimar Origins of Rhetorical Inquiry

Marshall David L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226722214, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The Weimar origins of political theory is a widespread and powerful narrative, but this singular focus leaves out another intellectual history that historian David L. Marshall works to reveal: the Weimar origins of rhetorical inquiry. Marshall focuse...

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Biography & Memoires

Leonardo Balada A Transatlantic Gaze

de Dios Juan Francisco

ISBN: PB: 9780887486630, University of Chicago Press, New Issues Poetry and Prose, October 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 117 halftones

Leonardo Balada: A Transatlantic Gaze tells the story of how composer Leonardo Balada journeyed from a childhood and youth overshadowed by the violence of the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath of "the years of hunger" to a new life as a budding com...

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Music

Beethoven A Political Artist in Revolutionary Times

Kinderman William

ISBN: HB: 9780226669052, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 20 halftones, 26 line drawings

We have long regarded Beethoven as a great composer, but we rarely appreciate that he was also an eminently political artist. This book unveils the role of politics in his oeuvre, elucidating how the inherently political nature of Beethoven's music e...

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